The Apostolic Nunciature to Myanmar is an ecclesiastical office of the

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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

. It is a diplomatic post of the

Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of Rome ...

, whose representative is called the

Apostolic Nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international org ...

with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio resides in Thailand.

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

established the Holy See's Delegation to Myanmar on 13 September 1990. It became a nunciature and the first nuncio was appointed on 12 August 2017.

List of papal representatives to Myanmar

;Apostolic Delegates *

Alberto Tricarico Alberto Tricarico (born 10 August 1927) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. Biography Alberto Tricarico was born in Gallipoli, Italy, on 10 August 1927. He ...

(22 December 1990 – 26 July 1993) *

Luigi Bressan Luigi Bressan (born 9 February 1940) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked from 1971 to 1999 in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and then served as Archbishop of Trento until 2016. Biography Luigi Bressan was born on 9 F ...

(26 July 1993 - 25 March 1999) *

Adriano Bernardini Adriano Bernardini (born 13 August 1942) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who occupied positions in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from the 1970s until he retired in 2017. His first assignment as Apostolic Nuncio was to Bangl ...

(24 July 1999 - 26 April 2003) *

Salvatore Pennacchio Salvatore Pennacchio (born 7 September 1952 in Marano, Italy) is a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See, currently president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Biography He received his priestly ordination on 18 September ...

(20 September 2003 - 8 May 2010) *

Giovanni d'Aniello Giovanni d’Aniello (born 5 January 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. An archbishop since 2001, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation on 1 June 2020. ...

(22 September 2010 - 10 February 2012) *

Paul Tschang In-Nam Paul Tschang In-Nam (born 30 October 1949) is a Korean prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985, with the title of archbishop and the rank of apostolic nuncio since 2002. He is the firs ...

(4 August 2012 – 12 August 2017) ;Apostolic Nuncios * Paul Tschang In-Nam (12 August 2017 – 16 July 2022)

References

{{Diplomatic missions in Myanmar

Holy See–Myanmar relations